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The Big Game (1942 film)

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Director
  
Robert A. Stemmle

Music director
  
Michael Jary

Duration
  

Country
  
Germany

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Genre
  
Sport

Production
  
Bavaria Film

Language
  
German

Writer
  
Toni Huppertz
,
Richard Kirn

Release date
  
10 July 1942

Cast
  
René Deltgen
(Mittelstürmer Werner Fehling),
Gustav Knuth
(Trainer Karl Wildbrandt),
Heinz Engelmann
(Torwart Jupp Jäger),
Maria Andergast
(Annemarie Sand),
Karl Schönböck
(Fotograf Richter),
Lucy Millowitsch
(Frau Eysoldt)

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The Big Game (German: Das große Spiel) is a 1942 German sports film directed by Robert A. Stemmle and starring René Deltgen, Gustav Knuth and Heinz Engelmann. It featured famous German footballers of the era. National coach Sepp Herberger arranged for many German international footballers to be recalled from fighting in the Second World War, ostensibly to improve the quality of the film, but actually to try to protect them from the horrors of war.

Some sequences of the film are in Agfacolor. The sets were designed by art directors Gerbert Hochreiter and Walter Schlick.

Partial cast

  • René Deltgen as Mittelstürmer Werner Fehling
  • Gustav Knuth as Trainer Karl Wildbrandt
  • Heinz Engelmann as Torwart Jupp Jäger
  • Maria Andergast as Annemarie Sand
  • Karl Schönböck as Fotograf Richter
  • Josef Sieber as Vereins-Senior Vater Gabler
  • Ruth Lommel as Verkäuferin Flora Tietze
  • Wolfgang Staudte as Fritz Eysoldt
  • Lucy Millowitsch as Frau Eysoldt
  • Hans Appel as Player
  • Fritz Balogh as Player
  • Bauernfeind as Player
  • Gerta Böttcher as Ilse Klebusch
  • Tino Carocci as Otto Wendland
  • Karl Ludwig Diehl as SS-Mann
  • Erich Dunskus as Zuschauer beim Elfmeterschießen
  • Hermann Eppenhoff as Player
  • Adolf Fischer as Heini Gabler
  • Albert Florath as Pförtner
  • Ulla Gauglitz as Edith Schladebach
  • Rudi Gellesch as Player
  • Erich Goede as Player
  • Graf as Player
  • Paul Henckels as SA-Ordner
  • Sepp Herberger as Zuschauer des Fußballspiels
  • Hoffmann as Player
  • Lucie Höflich as Wirtin Frau Klebusch
  • Hilde Jansen as Grete Gabler
  • Kästner as Player
  • Herbert Klatt as Bruno Mielke

    • References

    The Big Game (1942 film) Wikipedia
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    The Big Game (1942 film) IMDb The Big Game (1942 film) themoviedb.org